Is 'Lucky Strike' Next Up For Tony Scott, With Vince Vaughn?

EXCLUSIVE: Might we finally have an answer to the question: what film will Tony Scott next direct? Things are starting to look up for Lucky Strike, a project that is gaining steam. In the configuration I’m hearing about, Vince Vaughn would star, with a potential late summer or early fall start date and Emmett/Furla Films funding the $80 million film and 20th Century Fox distributing. That’s where Scott Free has its deal, and Scott Free will produce with Randall Emmett and George Furla. The latter have been footing the bill for a group of high profile projects, the most recent 2 Guns, the drama that has come together with Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg, with Universal is distributing domestically and Sony World Wide Acquisitions buying most territories around the world.

Henry Bean wrote Lucky Strike, an action film in which a DEA agent teams with a drug runner to take down a drug cartel. Scott, who last directed Unstoppable, has liked this project for a long time. He has also been working hard on Hell’s Angels, which was scripted by Scott Frank. And what about that remake of Walter Hill’s The Warriors?

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warriors come out and play • on Feb 15, 2012 12:42 pm

Yes by all means remake The Warriors so the update can have them being chased all over the city with iPhones and iPads with people posting updates on Twitter and uploading instant videos to YouTube. That’s a great reason to remake a classic film. (rolls eyes, walks away)

classic? • on Feb 15, 2012 12:42 pm

I’m getting tired of remakes, but I’m also getting fed up with people saying any movie that was made more than 20 years ago is a classic. Most of the movies being remade WERE NOT classics (I’m looking at you, Karate Kid and Dirty Dancing) and neither is the Warriors. It came out when I was in middle school and I liked it but I knew it wasn’t a great movie even then.